Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is publicly calling on the government to break up ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

When Axios asked him whether the Sam Altman-led company should be broken up, he responded with “I do.”

“We need to take a deep breath and understand it’s like a meteor coming,” he told the publication in an interview last week. “We’ve got to be prepared to deal with all of its complexity.”

To be clear, the idea is a serious long shot. While president Donald Trump ran on the promise of breaking up big tech, major companies spent millions on currying favor with him — including donations for his latest White House ballroom project — with varying levels of success.

Trump has also embraced AI fullheartedly during his second term, proudly announcing a massive $500 billion AI infrastructure

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